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New Book: Brill's Companion to the Classics, Fascist Italy and Nazi GermanyBrill's Companion to the Classics, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, edited by Helen Roche and Kyriakos Demetriou, has just been published by Brill.
The volume provides the first ever guide to the manifold uses and reinterpretations of the classical tradition in Mussolini’s Italy and Hitler’s Germany. The essays contained within explore how political propaganda manipulated and reinvented the legacy of ancient Greece and Rome in order to create consensus and historical legitimation for the Fascist and National Socialist dictatorships.Read more...
On 10 November 2017, Helen spoke to around 80 members of the Pförtner Bund, the Schulpforta Old Boys' association, about the school's incarnation as a Napola, at their annual autumn reunion in Berlin.Read more...
New Publication: 'Blüte und Zerfall'Helen's article, 'Blüte und Zerfall: "Schematic Narrative Templates" of decline and fall in völkisch and National Socialist racial ideology', has just been published by Berghahn books in a volume entitled The Persistence of Race: Continuity and Change in Germany from the Wilhelmine Empire to National Socialism, edited by Lara Day and Oliver Haag.
“This is an impressively coherent and highly engaging volume.” · Dan Stone, Royal Holloway, University of London.Read more...
On 29 September 2017, Helen presented a paper entitled 'German Philhellenism and the Making of Western Humanism' at the sixth annual conference of the Society for the History of the Humanities, Somerville College, University of Oxford.Read more...
Helen's review of Johanna Hanink's The Classical Debt: Greek Antiquity in an Era of Austerity (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017), has just been published in Reviews in History.
Just out: MACAT Analyses of 'Bloodlands' and 'The Hitler Myth'Helen's analyses of Ian Kershaw's The Hitler Myth and Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands have recently been published by Routledge in the Macat Library series of guides to classic works of scholarship.
"With a growing list of over 180 titles across a broad range of subject areas, Macat works with leading academics from the world’s top universities to produce new analysesRead more...
Helen's review of Philanthropy, Civil Society, and the State in German History, 1815-1989, by Thomas Adam (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2016), has just been published in the Modern Language Review.Read more...
On 15 June 2017, Helen presented a paper entitled '"Welchen Gang die alte Klosterschule gehen wird, scheint leider noch nicht festzustehen...": NS-Machtdurchsetzungsprozesse in der Nationalpolitischen Erziehungsanstalt Ilfeld' at a two-day conference organised by the Leibniz Universität Hannover's Institut für Didaktik der Demokratie, entitled 'Die Klosterkammer Hannover im Nationalsozialismus'.Read more...
On 13 June 2017, Helen presented a paper at the the Historisches Seminar, Leibniz Universität Hannover, entitled 'NS-Eliteerziehung in den Nationalpolitischen Erziehungsanstalten: Ausgeprägte Entbürgerlichung oder "Verbürgerlichung im braunen Mantel"?'Read more...
On 9 June 2017, Helen presented a paper at a workshop entitled 'Politicizing the Social and the Cultural in the Histories of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany', organised by Christian Goeschel (University of Manchester) and Hannah Malone (University of Cambridge), and sponsored by the German History Society, the Association for the Study of Modern Italy, and the Trevelyan Fund.Read more...